2nd CFP - KARE2008 Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition, Reuse and Evaluation

Mo Sep 8 09:39:35 CEST 2008

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2nd CALL FOR PAPERS: KARE 2008
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First International Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition, Reuse and Evaluation
(KARE2008)
http://set.utbm.fr/index.php?pge=395&lang=fr

In conjunction with the fourth IEEE international conference on Signal-Image
Technology & Internet Based Systems (SITIS 2008)
http://www.u-bourgogne.fr/SITIS/08/

Nov 30 - Dec 3rd 2008, Bali, Indonesia

++ Deadline for submission: Sept 15, 2008 ++
++ Full papers and position papers invited ++

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Description
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In recent years, organisations have used multiple methods and approaches to
design their strategic and action plans. In this context, knowledge-based
systems have received increased attention as being instrumental to strategy
formulation. The synergy of these approaches with knowledge management
initiatives is intuitive and their use in a common framework is discussed in
this workshop to show the importance of methods and instruments to mapping and
assessing the knowledge assets of an organisation.

This workshop will focus on the theoreticians and practitioners concerned with
developing methods and systems that assist the knowledge management process and
assessing the suitability of such methods. Thus, the workshop includes all
aspects of acquiring, modeling and managing knowledge, and their role in the
construction of knowledge-based systems. Knowledge acquisition still remains
the bottleneck for building a knowledge based system. Reuse and sharing of
knowledge bases are major issues and no satisfactory solutions have been agreed
upon yet. There is a wide range of research. Much of the work in this field has
been knowledge acquisition. The advent of the age of digital information has
brought the problem of knowledge reuse and knowledge evaluation. Our ability to
analyze, evaluate and assist user in reusing knowledge present a great challenge
of the next years. A new generation of computational techniques and tools is
required to support the acquisition, the reuse and the evaluation of useful
knowledge from the rapidly growing volume of information. All of these are to
be discussed in this workshop.

Important dates
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++ Submission deadline : September, 20
++ Notification  : October, 20
++ Final date for camera-ready copy : November 10

Topics of interest
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 Tools and techniques for knowledge acquisition, knowledge update and knowledge
validation
 Web-based approaches for knowledge management
 CSCW and cooperative approaches for knowledge management
 Agent-based approaches for knowledge management
 Evaluation of knowledge acquisition techniques
 Knowledge acquisition, machine learning and knowledge discovery
 Languages and frameworks for knowledge and knowledge modeling
 Ontology-based approaches for knowledge management
 Integration of knowledge acquisition techniques with decision support systems
 Methods and techniques for sharing and reusing knowledge
 Knowledge-based approaches for knowledge management
 Corporate Semantic Webs for knowledge management
 Peer-to-peer approaches for knowledge management
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Submissions
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You are invited to submit full length papers, not exceeding 6 pages in length,
in two-column format including diagrams and references, following IEEE
publication guidelines. Papers that do not follow these guidelines may be
rejected without consideration of their merits.

Papers must be submitted electronically to the contact point in PDF format. All
workshops will be published by IEEE in a single total conference volume and
fully indexed by IEEE Xplore.
Selected papers after extension will be published in the following journals:
- International Journal of Computer Aided Engineering (ICAE)
- Journal of Digital Information Management (JDIM) (ISSN 0972-7272)
- International Journal of Computanional Intelligence Research (ISSN 0973-1873)
All papers will be reviewed by at least three Program Committee members on the
basis of technical quality, originality, clarity, and relevance to the track
topics listed below. Accepted papers will be published in the conference
proceedings. At least one author of each paper must attend the workshop to
present the paper.

Send your paper in pdf format to davy.monticolo at utbm.fr

Workshop Chairs
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Paolo Ceravolo, University of Milan (Italy)
Vincent Hilaire, UTBM (France)
Davy Monticolo, UTBM (France)

Program Committee
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Thierry Badard, Universite Laval, Canada
Djamal Benslimane, University of Lyon, France
Pierre Bourque Ecole de Technologie Superieure, Université du Québec, Canada
Alain Bran, Ecole de Technologie Superieure, Université du Québec, Canada
Valerie Camps, Universite Paul Sabatier, France
Nathalie Chaignaud, INSA Rouen, France
Richard Chbeir, Bourgogne University, France
Juan Manuel Corchado Rodríguez, University of Salamanca, Spain
Badica Costin, University of Craiova, Romania
Fabio Crestani, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy
Virginia Dignum, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Samuel Gomes UTBM, France
William Grosky, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA
Dusan Husek, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic
Gilles Kassel University of  Picardie, France
Abderrafiaa Koukam UTBM, France
Marja Naaranoja Vaasa University of Applied Sciences, Finland
Pit Pichappan, Annamalai University, India
Louis Rivest, Ecole de Technologie Superieure, Université du Québec, Canada
Sugata Sanyal, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India
Carla Simone, University of Milano-Bicocca Italy
Mariemma Yague, University of Malaga, Spain
Chen Yuehui, University of Jinan, China
Ales Zivkovic, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Antonio Zilli, e-Business Management School, Italy

For further information, please send an email to
davy.monticolo at utbm.fr